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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by TZubiri on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:33AM (#49332709)
Are these disproportionately in the free tier? Or is the increased storage load similar across the paid tiers?

Might be worth considering a /GB/MO fee. Let's face it, VCS is a (glorified) storage service.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by cute_boi on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:43AM (#49332862)
I think Github should start charging who goes beyond fair usages.

I just checked no 1 vibe coder https://github.com/steipete and he has like 279,440. Compared this to Taylor who works on huge project like Laravel and is only around 8k commits.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by ProofHouse on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:46AM (#49332920)
The scam that anthropic pulled, is they remove free tier (bad idea for Github honestly), but blame it on AI vibe code abusers. Instead of for example finding the 1-5% of absolutely aggregous users like Steipete and restricting them.
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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by logicallee on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:54AM (#49333055)
it's a bit of a stretch to call removing a free tier a scam. as you can see a lot of people in this thread are saying Github should start charging.
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